NOTE

       This man page only documents the hardware-specific features of the
       tripplite_usb driver.  For information about the core driver, see
       nutupsdrv(8).

SUPPORTED HARDWARE

       This driver should work with older Tripp Lite UPSes which are detected
       as USB HID-class devices, but are not true HID Power-Device Class
       devices.  So far, the devices supported by tripplite_usb have product
       ID 0001, and the newer units (such as those with "LCD" in the model
       name) with product ID 2001 will work with the usbhid-ups driver
       instead.  Please report success or failure to the nut-upsuser mailing
       list.  A key piece of information is the protocol number, returned in
       ups.debug.0.  Also, be sure to turn on debugging ("-DDD") for more
       informative log messages.  If your Tripp Lite UPS uses a serial port,
       you may wish to investigate the tripplite(8) or tripplite_su(8) driver.

       This driver has been tested with the following models:

       * OMNISV1000
       * OMNISV1500XL (some warnings)
       * SMART1500RM2U
       * SMART2200RMXL2U
       * SMART3000RM2U

EXTRA ARGUMENTS

       This driver supports the following optional setting in the ups.conf(5)
       file (or with "-x" on the command line):

       offdelay
           This setting controls the delay between receiving the "kill" com-
           mand ("-k") and actually cutting power to the computer.

       bus This regular expression is used to match the USB bus (as seen in
           "/proc/bus/usb/devices" or lsusb(8); including leading zeroes).

       product
           A regular expression to match the product string for the UPS.  This
           would be useful if you have two different Tripp Lite UPS models
           connected to the system, and you want to be sure that you shut them
           down in the correct order.

           Note that this regex is matched against the full USB product string
           as seen in lsusb(8). The "ups.model" in the "upsc" output only
           lists the name after "TRIPP LITE", so to match a SMART2200RMXL2U,
           you could use the regex ".*SMART2200.*".

       productid
           The productid is a regular expression which matches the UPS PID as
           four hexadecimal digits.  So far, the only devices that work with
           this driver have PID 0001.

       Lite, so certain events may confuse the driver. If you observe any
       strange behavior, please re-run the driver with "-DDD" to increase the
       verbosity.

       So far, the Tripp Lite UPSes do not seem to have any serial number or
       other unique identifier accessible through USB. Thus, when monitoring
       several Tripp Lite USB UPSes, you should use either the "bus" or "prod-
       uct" configuration options to uniquely specify which UPS a given driver
       instance should control.

       For instance, you can easily monitor an OMNIVS1000 and a SMART1500RM2U
       at the same time, since they have different USB Product ID strings. If
       you have two SMART1500RM2U units, you would have to find which USB bus
       number each unit is on (via "lsusb"), which may result in ambiguities
       if the available USB ports are on the same bus.

       Some of the SMART*2U models seem to have an ID number that could be
       used in a future version of this driver to monitor multiple similar
       UPSes.

AUTHORS

       Charles Lepple <clepple+nut@ghz.cc>, based on the tripplite driver by
       Rickard E. (Rik) Faith <faith@alephnull.com> and Nicholas Kain
       <nicholas@kain.us>.

       A Tripp Lite OMNIVS1000 was graciously donated to the NUT project by:

           Relevant Evidence, LLC.

           http://www.relevantevidence.com

           Email: info@relevantevidence.com

SEE ALSO

       The core driver:

       nutupsdrv(8), regex(7), usbhid-ups(8)

       Internet resources:

       The NUT (Network UPS Tools) home page: http://www.networkupstools.org/



                                  2006-10-19                  TRIPPLITE_USB(8)